Squash pie is an interesting alternative to squash pancakes. It is very simple to bake it, and you can cook it both for a family dinner and for a festive table.
Recipe content:
- Features of cooking zucchini pie
- The benefits of squash pie
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Zucchini is widely used in cooking. It is absolutely inexpensive, besides, it has a neutral taste, to which you can add pungency, sourness, sweetness, as you like!
Features of cooking zucchini pie
If you use zucchini of young fruits, then they can not be peeled from the skin. Zucchini are old, have a hard skin, so it is better to clean it. Zucchini is usually grated, which can be used with a coarse or fine wire rack. But you can also twist them in a meat grinder. If the pie is prepared with a filling, then the zucchini mixture is laid out in two layers, between which the filling is placed. However, you can mix the courgette dough with other ingredients - for example, cheese or chicken fillet - and bake everything whole.
The benefits of squash pie
Healthy food is more important for you than high-calorie food, then do not miss the opportunity to make this pie. After all, dishes made from zucchini are rightfully ranked first in the summer menu. This vegetable is rich in a fairly large amount of useful vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body, but it contains a minimum of calories.
Also, do not forget that zucchini, namely their juice, is very soft, so it does not cause any irritation. For the same reason, zucchini is useful for people suffering from diabetes or stomach diseases. However, zucchini is also useful for those who do not have such problems.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 150 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Pie
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 2 pcs.
- Eggplant - 1 pc. (small size)
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 50 g
- Salt to taste
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons
- Refined vegetable oil - for greasing the baking sheet
Making a squash pie
1. Wash the courgettes and eggplants, dry with a paper towel and grate on a medium grater. Bitterness can be removed from old eggplant fruits. With a young vegetable, such a process is not necessary.
2. Season the resulting vegetable gruel with salt and add the semolina. Mix everything and leave for 15 minutes so that the semolina swells a little.
3. Add the egg and mix well.
4. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable refined oil and line the squash dough in an even layer.
5. Wash the tomatoes, dry them, cut them into rings and place them on top of the dough.
6. Grind the tomatoes with grated cheese and bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. The pie can be served immediately after cooking, but it can also be eaten cold. By the way, if you wish, you can put filling on the cake, for example, mushroom. To do this, you need to fry any mushrooms until golden, then stew them with sour cream and put on a pie.
See also a video recipe on how to make a squash cake.
